Tag: desktop
Are we (re-)approaching the year of applications on the desktop?
Desktop software is having a quiet revival. After years of SaaS monoculture, frameworks like Wails and Tauri are enabling a new generation of native-feeling apps built with familiar web technologies — at a fraction of Electron's resource cost. Wails v3's first-class in-app updates might be what finally tips the scale.
How to install Debian 13 Trixie with a GNOME desktop
edafe.de/debian Debian GNU/Linux was first released in 1993 and has been under active developement ever since. Today, the Debian Project unites thousands of contributors from across the globe with the aim of producing "an operating system distribution that is composed entirely of free software". This guide is intended to assist those who are installing Debian...
Motherboard On The Wall
Frying a motherboard's USB rail with mismatched modular PSU cables, and turning the dead board into a wall-mounted reminder to always recheck pinouts.
Simon Hoffman - Nut.js
Simon Hoffman explores desktop automation with Nut.js, a cross-platform library designed to automate anything with an intuitive API.
I Built A Desktop Computer
Switching from a MacBook to a custom-built Windows desktop for WSL2, gaming, and ML workloads, with the full parts list and reasoning behind each pick.
Getting Windows Phone Apps Back Into The Zune Desktop Client
Restoring the Windows Phone app section in Zune Desktop by intercepting and overriding the configuration update endpoint Zune fetches at startup.
Itsme: is the desktop metaphor really over?
Last week a friend of mine, knowing my increasing interest in interaction design, forwarded me the poster of a talk held in University of Milano-Bicocca about a new project named itsme. Since I always...